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Author Archives: ChrisB
Sarah Palin in the Eye of the Beholder
With news that Governor Palin started her own political action committee at SarahPAC, she has entered the punditry discussion again, and yet again provokes strong responses, though as Josh Painter shows, little consensus. Many of the descriptions have to be … Continue reading
David Cay Johnston Puts on his Bad Idea Jeans
(Edit: Mr. Johnston graciously replies in the comments section. It seems the invasion was a bit of a modest proposal that I failed to pick up on. While there are things to disagree with in the rest of the article, … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Foreign affairs, taxes
Tagged bad ideas, calls for invasion, militant left, mother jones, tax shelters
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Is Our Universe a Hologram?
Scientists may have accidentally discovered an indication that it is, but warn it’s still way to early to tell.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged cosmology, gravity, holograms, string theory, universe
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How to Show Off Your Conservation Credentials
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) decided he wanted to show off how green he was by driving an electric car being developed in his district to his swearing in at the Capitol in D.C. Of course no electric car actually has … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, energy, Environment
Tagged boneheaded congress, conservation, electric cars, government waste
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What Does It Take for a Police Officer To Get Fired?
Radley Balko compares two police officer firings and finds that it’s pretty hard for an officer to get fired, unless they go easy on marijuana users.The first officer kind of reminds me of Alaskan State Trooper Mike Wooten from Sarah … Continue reading
Resolution to Repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment
Rep. José Serrano introduced a bill to do just that last week. Not sure why. I would think it had something to do with Obama being president, but he also introduced the same bill in 2005. (H/T: Euguene Volokh)
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics
Tagged 22nd amendment, constitutional amendments, jose serrano
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Bringing Sight to the Poor
with do it yourself adjustible strength glasses.No optician needed.
Obama Stimulus Plan
A before and after look.
Gaza War Arrives in Second Life
And amid the protests, obscenities, and intolerance we find a scene that you’d only find virtual worlds like Second Life:
Posted in Chris' Page, Foreign affairs, Technology
Tagged Gaza War, Israel, online communities, Palestine, virtual reality
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This Certainly Explains
the Government we have in DC.
New Chili Pepper on the Block
The Dorset naga: Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, recently added a new pepper to its vegetable shelves: the Dorset naga. Inhaling its vapour makes your nose tingle. Touching it is painful; cooks are advised to wear gloves. It is the … Continue reading
Whatever Happened to Municipal Wifi?
GMU Law Professor, and sometimes Reason contributor Thomas W. Hazlett looks at what happened to the myriad of “free municipal wifi” promises from cities a few years ago.
Cool Image of Venus
NASA captures this small movie of the solar wind stripping away the atmosphere of Venus. Very cool looking. (HT: Phil Plait)
Utter Insanity
Those are the only words I can think to describe this proposal. The Hubbard-Mayer plan calls for the government to revive the moribund housing market by providing just about everybody with access to a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a 4.5 … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, housing, regulation
Tagged Bloomberg, business reporting, housing crisis, idiotic laws, insanity
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“Worst Waste of the Year” Report
Cato looks at Senator Tom Coburn’s “Worst Waste of the Year” report that was just released (pdf report here). Tad DeHaven on how nauseating it was to read through the projects in the report, including a ” $15,000 in HUD … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics
Tagged cato, government waste, pork, pork busters, Tom Coburn
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Found on Ebay
Illinois Senate seat for sale.
Stimulus: Spending vs. Tax Multipliers
Greg Mankiw has a post today look at the real world studies of spending and tax multipliers. Keynesians might be surprised to learn that the tax multiplier appears to be much larger than the spending one. Studies put the Government … Continue reading
Jon Henke for RNC Communications Director
A good look at how the RNC needs to restructure and how they don’t for the next generation of campaigning. Jon is mentioned as paradigm of what the RNC Communications Director needs to be, I’d agree. You need someone who … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Technology
Tagged ecampaign, Jon Henke, rebuild the party, rebuildtheparty, reorganizing, RNC
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The Medicare Handgun
Medicare to Cover Prescription Handguns? (HT Professor Volokh)
Sullivan: Unhinged as a Truther
Andrew Sullivan, who’s never met a Sarah Palin rumor or slander he didn’t like, continues his transformation into an irrelevant and deranged Palin truther. It’s sad to see a once respectable voice in the blogosphere come unraveled, but Sullivan has … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged Andrew Sullivan, palin derangement syndrome, Sarah Palin, truthers
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Huckabee: Enemy of Libertarian Republicans Everywhere
Mike Huckabee’s new book is coming out, and in it he takes some pretty heavy shots at libertarian and economic conservatives who don’t share his populist big government views. The real threat to the Republican Party is something we saw … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Libertarianism
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Sarkozy The Georgian Hero?
Not sure how true this is, but here’s what the London Times says about how close Putin came to over throwing the Georgian government. With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Foreign affairs
Tagged ceasefire, France, Georgia, Putin, Russia, Russo-Georgian War, Saakashvili, Sarkozy
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Is it the Means or the End that Matters?
Michele Catalano writing at Pajamas Media yesterday, defending Obama’s call for (at one point) mandatory community service, gets it completely wrong. To backtrack a little bit for those who haven’t been paying attention the last week or so, at President … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Libertarianism
Tagged community service, controversy, draft, Michele Catalano, Obama, pajamas media, slavery
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Post Election Polling?
I’m signed up to recieve emails for Zogby Polls so I too noticed the strange questions a reader at Clayton Cramer’s blog did. If you knew Barack Obama supported a plan to place a 75% excise tax on the sale … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged 2008 election, gun control, Obama, polling, Zogby
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Tequila into Diamonds
Scientists have developed a process for turning tequila into diamonds. I’m more of a whiskey man myself.
Our President
Yes, Obama has made history and been elected president. I didn’t vote for him nor support him, but I have supported every US president in my lifetime and President Obama will be no different. I am going to disagree with … Continue reading
Tax Policy in the Obama Administration
For a technical look at what’s ahead, fifteen tax profs offer their thoughts on tax policy in the new Obama Administration.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged obama administration, tax policy, tax professors, taxes
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Proper Voting Attire
People are finding out that you have to be careful what you wear to the polling booth. The 40-year-old Houston Realtor was wearing one of her souvenir T-shirts when she went to cast her ballot at a Cypress polling place … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Election 2008, Law
Tagged Alaska, harris county, Houston, Voting, voting laws
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Where the Hell is Matt?
This is the greatness of the internet
Posted in Chris' Page, Culture, Humor, Travel
Tagged Matt, new media, the world, travelling, youtube clips
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You’re Doing a Heck of a Blog Brownie
Former head of FEMA Michael Brown, now has a blog. And you’ll pardon me for saying but (outside aesthetics which don’t matter a whole lot to me) I find myself liking a lot of his posts! Read some for yourself. … Continue reading
Texas = Best State in the Country
Financially according to the Financial Times. Check out this interactive map of the states and their comparative rankings in different financial categories. (HT: Megan McArdle)
Advice on your 401k
from Megan McArdle. Don’t look. I looked yesterday, but I’m just going to pretend I didn’t.
FDR Prolonged the Great Depression
New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years. Continue reading
The Bailout…
doesn’t look like it’s going to pass the House floor. Update: It failed. The vote was 207-226 against the measure, with one member not voting, half an hour after voting began. Voting remains open even though the “official” time has … Continue reading
China Pulls a Lapham – UPDATED
China space mission article hits Web before launch A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground. … Continue reading
Ike Aftermath
Hey guys. I’m still here and everything is fine. Had a small leak in my ceiling but otherwise no damage. Got power and water back Sunday, but there are still 1.5 million without, including my mother and sisters. Gas is … Continue reading
Hurricane Ike (Updated)
Scroll down for the updates. Well Hurricane Ike is heading my way. The center is projected to hit west of Houston, but a Freeport landfall would be the worst case for Houston, as it would entail a huge storm surge … Continue reading
LHC Pick Up Lines
Now this may color some people’s opinon of me, and I don’t mean to put any spin on it, but the last panel of this comic is hilarious. It’s my kind of flavor.
A Western Vibe Ticket
Todd Zywicki, of the Volokh Conspiracy, takes a look at libertarianism in the McCain/Palin ticket and notes a distinct western vibe to the first all-western ticket in our history. He had an interesting observation that I think captures a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Libertarianism
Tagged cinc, Libertarianism, McCain, military, Palin, Sarah Palin, statism, Todd Zywicki, volokh, Volokh Conspiracy, western, westernism, worldview
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Fred News : FredPac
Looks like the big Fred Thompson news is the formation of FredPac. I thought he already had a pac though, so I guess it’s more of a change in mission statement moving forward. Dear Friend, The challenges America faces may … Continue reading
Surge of Ignorance
Eric Posner looks back at the predictions of the Surge in Iraq failing, and how ignorant they look today.
Thoughts on the Republican Convention
I tuned in for a little bit and here are some thoughts. ABC, NBC and CBS showed it in SD, while CNN had it in HD. Dunno why. ABC was behind. They had Thompson speaking while the other networks had … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Election 2008, Media
Tagged Fred Thompson, Joe Lieberman, republican national convention
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The Truth About Russia in Georgia
Michael Totten is in Georgia interviewing actual Georgian soldiers and finding out what went on behind the scenes of this conflict. Turns out Saakashvili didn’t start it after all.
“Major” Fred Thompson Announcement Monday?
Just got this email from the Fred Thompson PAC. Friends, At this crucial moment in our nation’s history, it is vital that we adhere to the fundamental conservative principles that have unified us for over two centuries. On Monday, September … Continue reading
Posted in Chris' Page, Domestic Politics
Tagged conservative, email, Fred Thompson, PAC, September
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